The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday March 30th, 2023
Jean Giono and the Energies of the Earth by Rene Wadlow
Jean Giono (1895 – 1970) whose birth anniversary we mark on 30 March was one of the most original French advocates of non-violence. Giono, a pantheist philosopher, novelist of rural life, and in his later days, a movie-maker, had a fame in the wider public even among those who opposed his nonviolence. AndrĂ© Malraux, who was both a great novelist and a man who participated in war, wrote that the three best writers of his generation were Henri de Monterlant, Jean Giono, and George Bernanos.
Jean Giono was born and died in Manosque — a town in the mountains above Aix-en-Provence which, ironically, has now become an area of vacation homes for the well off who can no longer find space on the Cote d’Azur. In Giono’s time, it was an area of small farmers and shepherds who were the protagonists of Giono’s novels. One of the most moving of Giono’s books Le Serpent d’Etoiles (1933) has as its theme a shepherd looking at the Big Dipper. Thus Giono is often considered a “regionalist” writer, but, in fact, he uses the background of the region where he always lived (except for his military service in World War I) for dealing with broader, cosmic issues.
Giono’s family names from a north Italian grandfather whom he never knew. The grandfather was a carbonaro, a member of a secret society that worked against the richlandholders and the different authorities in Italy prior to the 1860 unification. The grandfather, accused of murder, had crossed the mountains into an isolated partof France where people by tradition were against authorities and seldom asked questions about a person’s background.
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Release #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“One day
We will die
You and I,
Under a lonely
Muted sky.”
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Screws & Chips #57 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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